diff --git a/Documentation/arch/x86/resctrl.rst b/Documentation/arch/x86/resctrl.rst
index 4c6421e2aa31cd47fea25dacb2204f5fa6dc19e4..178ab1d8f7475279f105d77e28899a0978e4b4a8 100644
--- a/Documentation/arch/x86/resctrl.rst
+++ b/Documentation/arch/x86/resctrl.rst
@@ -306,7 +306,14 @@ All groups contain the following files:
 "tasks":
 	Reading this file shows the list of all tasks that belong to
 	this group. Writing a task id to the file will add a task to the
-	group. If the group is a CTRL_MON group the task is removed from
+	group. Multiple tasks can be added by separating the task ids
+	with commas. Tasks will be assigned sequentially. Multiple
+	failures are not supported. A single failure encountered while
+	attempting to assign a task will cause the operation to abort and
+	already added tasks before the failure will remain in the group.
+	Failures will be logged to /sys/fs/resctrl/info/last_cmd_status.
+
+	If the group is a CTRL_MON group the task is removed from
 	whichever previous CTRL_MON group owned the task and also from
 	any MON group that owned the task. If the group is a MON group,
 	then the task must already belong to the CTRL_MON parent of this
diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/resctrl/rdtgroup.c b/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/resctrl/rdtgroup.c
index 09848ff11f7ba4a669bde2f4fd0557a5b2baeeae..fe239691628ac6fd421d85087c5a9cd3e9f4aa8e 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/resctrl/rdtgroup.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/resctrl/rdtgroup.c
@@ -696,11 +696,10 @@ static ssize_t rdtgroup_tasks_write(struct kernfs_open_file *of,
 				    char *buf, size_t nbytes, loff_t off)
 {
 	struct rdtgroup *rdtgrp;
+	char *pid_str;
 	int ret = 0;
 	pid_t pid;
 
-	if (kstrtoint(strstrip(buf), 0, &pid) || pid < 0)
-		return -EINVAL;
 	rdtgrp = rdtgroup_kn_lock_live(of->kn);
 	if (!rdtgrp) {
 		rdtgroup_kn_unlock(of->kn);
@@ -715,7 +714,27 @@ static ssize_t rdtgroup_tasks_write(struct kernfs_open_file *of,
 		goto unlock;
 	}
 
-	ret = rdtgroup_move_task(pid, rdtgrp, of);
+	while (buf && buf[0] != '\0' && buf[0] != '\n') {
+		pid_str = strim(strsep(&buf, ","));
+
+		if (kstrtoint(pid_str, 0, &pid)) {
+			rdt_last_cmd_printf("Task list parsing error pid %s\n", pid_str);
+			ret = -EINVAL;
+			break;
+		}
+
+		if (pid < 0) {
+			rdt_last_cmd_printf("Invalid pid %d\n", pid);
+			ret = -EINVAL;
+			break;
+		}
+
+		ret = rdtgroup_move_task(pid, rdtgrp, of);
+		if (ret) {
+			rdt_last_cmd_printf("Error while processing task %d\n", pid);
+			break;
+		}
+	}
 
 unlock:
 	rdtgroup_kn_unlock(of->kn);